Anti-Abortion Activists Want a Fight With Kamala Harris. Republicans Aren’t Interested.

“I think politicians don’t want to talk about it,” Sen. Josh Hawley said.

Kamala Harris speaks at Planned Parenthood.

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Anti-abortion activists say Kamala Harris’ ease in talking about abortion makes her easy to paint as an extremist. Republicans just aren’t very eager to brush.

“Harris is so committed to abortion that she can’t see anything else,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, in a memo the group sent to Republicans. “GOP candidates must use this to their advantage and define Harris as the real extremist on abortion — not them.”

President Joe Biden, SBA’s memo states, “could barely utter the word abortion and for decades supported at least some basic limits, such as limits on taxpayer-funded abortions, Harris shouts abortion.”